Qual era la sfida/problema affrontato??

The Corona crisis clearly showed that many citizens are interested in working on farms, helping farmers in various ways. This project involves a group of farmers who are open to cooperation with citizens and departs from their own needs, as well as the more general needs of the industry to involve citizens – paid and unpaid – in farming activities.

Closer cooperation between farmers and citizens in various forms (volunteering, care, educational practice, paid work, citizen involvement, servizi pubblici) indeed has many different potentials. tuttavia, this potential is largely untapped.

The project will reduce barriers to citizen participation and aims to promote innovative forms of cooperation. Re-evaluating volunteering and employment statutes based on legal expertise. What conditions need to be taken into account, such as competition rules, how governments can become facilitators of farmer-citizen co-creation food strategies.

Come hai risolto il problema?

We created a project where farmers, experts and scientists are working on:

  1. a breakthrough notes on farmer and citizen participation.
  1. a learning network for experimenting with farmer and citizen cooperation.

Develop policy strategies by exploring new labor market programs based on existing campaigns and platforms that emerged and were strengthened during the lockdown period.

Quali sono i fattori di successo nella risoluzione del problema?

  • Find appropriate legal models for cooperation between farmers and citizens.
  • Providing an enabling system for training citizens.
  • Providing innovative platforms for cooperation between farmers and citizens.

Eventuali guasti imprevisti

None.

Lezioni imparate.

None.

Quale ruolo svolge il consulente o il servizio di consulenza all'interno del caso pratico?

ILVO played an important role in the creation and writing of the project proposal. Even if it is a farmer-centric issue and farmers are at the center of the steering group.

Il tuo approccio può essere trasferito e/o adattato per altre sfide e regioni dell'innovazione??

sì.

Trasferibilità stimata su una scala da 1 a 5

(dove 1 è facile e 5 molto difficile)

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La tempistica è fondamentale per terminare il raccolto di copertura e la disponibilità di piegatrici a rulli potrebbe rappresentare un collo di bottiglia, please contact Maarten Crevits (maarten.crivits@ilvo.vlaanderen.be)